Konterr Brilliant and touching

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Winifred The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

Aspen Orson There is definitely an excellent idea hidden in the background of the film. Unfortunately, it's difficult to find it.

biggiesmartypants I didn't read any Philip K. Dick and only saw Bladerunner. I thought this documentary was great though because it shows what an interesting man PKD was. The people that are being interviewed i think are very relevant and interesting (even the 'fanboys', i don't hate those :). I was completely taken away by the documentary so i think the build up was good. The animation of PKD was fun and it was nice to hear the subject speak (he passed away in 1982, you heard him speak through before made tapes), though, maybe because i couldn't lipread him, i thought the tape was a bit inaudible .Maybe the last ten minutes or so were weak because the makers didn't know where to go anymore and worked towards a "go read some PKD". And in this last last part it was strange that the guy from agnostic magazine, who first had said PKD liked that Plato had liked Confusius because he was the only one never to have had a epiphany, thus illustrating PKD was down to earth about his own drug/stress/etc. induced epiphany, now said PKD maybe will have started a religion in a hundred years, thus not being down to earth himself after all.I think fanboys don't like the movie because they think they know everything already. But a good portrait isn't just about facts. Fanboys probably already knew the story about PKD's safe being broken into by, maybe, the FBI. But for me a science-fiction writer going on to write his 8,000 pages exegesis inspired by a epiphany is just, 'wow'..I think i will go read some PKD

Kurt Winter If I weren't already a PKD fan, and have read more than a dozen of his novels, this docuflick would do absolutely nothing for me. There is only about six or seven different interviewees, with scant biographical information. Cut scenes between interviews are overly long, and an annoying techno soundtrack makes archival audio from PKD inaudible.While it was certainly informative, it could have been edited better, and could have been more broad.This is something that diehard PKD fans will enjoy, but don't expect the kind of documentary quality that "Roger and Me" and "Sense of Life" convey. For all its flaws, still worth a look.

auteurus It's possible for a low budget fan documentary to be good, even interesting. Ed Wood and Jack Nance fans have made low budget documentaries about their respective topics which, although flawed, still held my interest.The Gospel According to Philip K. Dick however, is not such a documentary as it fails on almost every level. There is no archival material of Dick and little biographical info. The director appears more obsessed with Dick's visions and drug use rather than his incredible talent. The only appearance of Dick himself is muffled audio over a typewriter animation. The annoying animation is repeated ad nauseum, quickly becomes very grating and had me reaching for the fast forward on the remote. Even a still photo of Dick with the voiceover would have been better than this pathetic attempt.The production quality is poor, with shaky camera work, bad sound and music that ranges from jarringly bad techno to lame piano. The interviews are the highlight of the film, but even they are repetitive and many border on pointless (e.g. the librarian giving a tour of the Phillip K Dick collection, which is basically a tour of a bookshelf). Would it have killed the film makers to identify who they are actually interviewing, and what their relationship to Dick was?Even hardcore Phillip K Dick fans would gain little from watching this. Most people would be hard pressed to watch it at all. The most disappointing aspect is that Dick is one of the seminal writers of his generation, and his legacy deserves much better than this weak effort.2/10

hipcheck PKD is a good subject for a documentary, but this piece is hampered by a lack of visual stimulus, a slow-starting narrative, and especially an overload of silly graphics.The content starts getting intriguing and compelling about half-way through, but it takes some time to get there, a shame, since it seems that there is plenty of material to start off this direction at a much earlier point. In addition to this, there is a sequence of CGI that is repeated again and again, that is painful to watch, but is unrelenting. Although removing it would make this a very short documentary, it is cruel to leave in.All that said, if you're a fan, you might as well watch it, there is plenty of interest, especially if you thought Jason Koornick was a spazz in grade school.